Then he finished high school, went to college, then grad school in ecological science and for the last three decades, he's spent his time working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in Taiwan, Thailand, Laos, Belize and Myanmar (Burma), where he tries to protect jaguars, clouded leopards, tigers, Sumatran rhinos and all sorts of large mammals from encroaching humans.
NPR: An Asian Pygmy and his Pal from Far Rockaway